Meat dealers protest new management
Aug 20, 2011
THE Police on Friday deployed at the City Abattoir to calm meat dealers who became rowdy and shouted down a team sent by the tenderer, Hassan Basajjabalaba to explain management guidelines.
By Eddie Ssejjoba
THE Police on Friday deployed at the City Abattoir to calm meat dealers who became rowdy and shouted down a team sent by the tenderer, Hassan Basajjabalaba to explain management guidelines.
The Officer in charge Jinja Road police, Chris Katumba led a team of armed Police officers after a meeting organized by Basajjabalaba became rowdy, forcing it to end prematurely.
Two groups emerged during the meeting, one supporting Basajjabalaba management yet another section opposed it and rejected the new management guidelines that were announced.
The chairman City Abattoirs Traders’ Association, Abbey Mugumba addressed a parallel meeting and a large section cheered him as another group chanted ‘no change’ and gathered around Issa Nsubuga, an agent of Basajjabalaba.
Mugumba’s group complained that the abattoir was in a poor state, with stinking and dilapidated structures that include the kraal, slaughtering house, toilets and the high taxes.
They said `each trader paid sh12,000 for checking in an animal at the abattoir in addition to other unexplained fees that include sh15,000 for slaughtering 2,500 for entering the slaughter house 1,000 for skinningsh1,000 for weighing scale, which totals to between sh25,000 to sh30,000 per animal.
They appealed to the Kampala Capital City Authority to intervene and explain the alleged 49-year lease to Basajjabalaba, which they said was unfair.
THE Police on Friday deployed at the City Abattoir to calm meat dealers who became rowdy and shouted down a team sent by the tenderer, Hassan Basajjabalaba to explain management guidelines.
The Officer in charge Jinja Road police, Chris Katumba led a team of armed Police officers after a meeting organized by Basajjabalaba became rowdy, forcing it to end prematurely.
Two groups emerged during the meeting, one supporting Basajjabalaba management yet another section opposed it and rejected the new management guidelines that were announced.
The chairman City Abattoirs Traders’ Association, Abbey Mugumba addressed a parallel meeting and a large section cheered him as another group chanted ‘no change’ and gathered around Issa Nsubuga, an agent of Basajjabalaba.
Mugumba’s group complained that the abattoir was in a poor state, with stinking and dilapidated structures that include the kraal, slaughtering house, toilets and the high taxes.
They said `each trader paid sh12,000 for checking in an animal at the abattoir in addition to other unexplained fees that include sh15,000 for slaughtering 2,500 for entering the slaughter house 1,000 for skinningsh1,000 for weighing scale, which totals to between sh25,000 to sh30,000 per animal.
They appealed to the Kampala Capital City Authority to intervene and explain the alleged 49-year lease to Basajjabalaba, which they said was unfair.